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5.22  Urgent
need from the front line:
1. Tarp is needed everywhere. It can work
temporarily against the weather when/where tent is
unavailable.
2. Food such as
rice, flour, oil and fresh vegetables.
3. Protective supplies like masks and rubber
gloves.
5.21 Now
the relief effort has entered another stage that's focused on
preventing epidemic outbreaks, and helping quake victims to
settle down.... More Details
5.21 More than 600 children resumed their classes in
Jiuzhou Stadium of Mianyang, with 600 sets of school supplies
donated by OSCCF. More Details
5.20 Now is not a good time to adopt
survived orphans. It takes several months to identity find
these children and help them find their family and relatives.
Families who wish to adopt should start learning children
psychology and getting prepared in the next months. It takes
more patience and wisdom to bring up traumatic orphans.
5.20 In the afternoon, 8000 N95
mask was delivered to volunteers in Chengdu from Guangzhou.
The masks filter out viral pathogens and effectively protect
the respirators system (nose and mouth) in a pandemic
environment. They will be distributed to volunteers and
survivors at the soonest time.
5.19 I went to Yingxiu with several
moms from Guangzhoumoms.com. We brought more than 20 boxes of
baby stuff. The road was rebuilt with tremendous efforts from
soldiers but remained horrible... More Details
5.19 On the day when the order of
retreating was issued, I believed there were still
survivors under the rubbles, unfortunately we have to
retreat... More Details
5.17 OSCCF managed to borrow a loan
of US $70,000 for the medicines. A cargo truck is on its way
to ship the medicine from An Hui Province to the disaster
area. More Details
5.16 We urgently need the following
supplies : Isolation Clothes, professional level (protective
masks, protective gloves), rubbing alcohol, absorbent cotton,
bottled water and medications. More Details
5.16 Beichuan County is the worst
affected area. We are disinfecting now but are
in urgent need of medical supplies. The place is
in danger of epidemic spread and is not properly equipped
to fight off this immediate danger. More details
5.15 The
disaster site was so much more miserable than what you saw on
TV, more than 100 times worse. We were totally stunned,
speechless and we even forgot how to cry. Soldiers just dug
out 7 kids live in a middle school. More Details
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Medical
Supplies
OSCCF has secured medical
supplies worth $70,000 but needs fund to ship them to
BeiChuan. Please help us by making a donation(instruction
below).
Baby/Child
Supplies
OSCCF was among the first groups that
brought formula and other crucial baby/child supplies to
victims. These fragile beings needs our help.
How to
Donate
Mail: Please make all checks or money
orders payable to OSCCF and mail to:
Overseas Save the Chinese Children
Foundation
793-10 Federal Road
Brookfield,CT 06804
On
the memo line, please write 'Earthquake'
Donate via Paypal to
children@osccf.org
Please
specify 'Earthquake'.
We appreciate your
generosity!
Sichuan
Earthquake Facts
-- from Multiple Sources
- More than 34,000
dead
- Thousands still
missing
- Approximately 14,000
trapped under collapsed buildings
- At least 436,000
homes have collapsed
- 159,000 injured
- At least 4.8 million
homeless
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Students study at a temporary
classroom under a tent on an open field at Haihong primary
school in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, May 17, 2008. None of
the school's 253 staff and students died in the May 12
earthquake that also left the school building unscathed. The
words read in Chinese, "Learning area".
REUTERS/Stringer
(CHINA) 
National
Mourning Days(5.19-5.21)
China's
national flag flies at half-mast after the flag-raising
ceremony in Beijing Monday morning, May 19, 2008. China on
Monday begins a three-day national mourning for the tens of
thousands of people killed in a powerful earthquake which
struck the country's southwest on May 12.
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